Rethinking the Reasonable Person: An Egalitarian Reconstruction of the Objective Standard

ISBN-13: 9780199247820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 368 str.

Mayo Moran

Opis

The 'reasonable person' is used to assess the acceptability of behavior in many areas of the law including criminal law and accident law. However the reasonable person has also attracted substantial criticism from egalitarian critics and feminists insofar as it presupposes contested notions of 'normal' behaviour and may discriminate against certain classes of defendant. Rethinking the Reasonable Person systematically investigates whether there are deeper foundations to these criticisms and discusses how the legal standard might be reconstructed in a more egalitarian way.

Recenzje

The author dissects the concept of the reasonable person with intelligence and wit. ... This excellent book will no doubt be at the centre of debates about the reasonable person standard for some considerable time to come.

O autorze

Mayo Moran is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She recently completed an appointment as Associate Dean.